“That robot in the picture is kinda’ cute, isn’t it? Just don’t wave your hand around in front of its face like a small wounded animal.
Wired reports that some jackass built a robot that identifies human flesh as bacon. From their article titled “Let the robot holocaust commence: robots think we taste like bacon”:
“Researchers at NEC System technologies and Mie University have designed the cute little guy to the right: a metal man gastronomist, “an electromechanical sommelier”, capable of identifying wines, cheeses, meats and hors d’oeuvres. Upon being given a sample, he will speak up in a childlike voice and identify what he has just been fed. The idea is that wineries can tell if a wine is authentic without even opening the bottle, amongst other more obscure uses…like “tell me what this strange grayish lump at the back of my freezer is/was.”
But when some smart aleck reporter placed his hand in the robot’s omnivorous clanking jaw, he was identified as bacon. A cameraman then tried and was identified as prosciutto.”"
Read more at Dateline Zero (Thanks Johnny5)
But this would be correct. In areas where cannabalism was once practiced the rough translation of what they called the meat is ‘long pork’. Actually, given our close genetic link to all things porcine, it’s hardly surprising.
Hmmm, don’t cannibals refer to human meat as ‘longpig’? If I get stranded on a desert island or mountainside in the Andes with a plane cabin full of corpses, good to know that the food’ll taste good.
i thought we tasted more like sushi…at least when alive!
old news, but still interesting
Is he refering to Kevin Bacon maybe? Weird to programme a robot that knows what celebrities taste like.
So…how is this news?
Oh, wait…it’s that a *robot* could tell that we taste like bacon…
A friend is not vegetarian but can no longer eat bacon as it reminds him of the smell his arm made when he caught it on fire!
So this makes sense to me :-p
Nice!!
5 alive!
If you think about it, the robot was probably tasting the surface of the skin which is often covered a thin layer of sweat or salt. Camera man’s hands presumably were sweatier due to handling of equipment making him prosciutto.